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(No Model.)

C. F. DEAN.

PRUNING IMPLEMENT.

Patented Marr24, 1885.

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. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHESTER FARR DEAN, OF ST. JOHN SBURY, VERMONT, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNEASSIGNMENTS-TO HIMSELF AND HARVEY S.

PLACE.

CALDERWVOOD, OF SAME PRUNING IMPLEMENT;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 314,230, dated March24, 1885.

Application filed May 1'),

1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHEsTER FARR DEAN,

of St. Johnsbury, in the county of Caledonia, I

of the State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful Improvement inSaw and Pole Attachments; and I do hereby declare the same to bedescribed in the followi and represented in the accompanying d ings, ofwhich- Figure 1 is an upper edge or top view, Fig. 2 a side view, andFig. 3 a longitudinal section, of portions of a saw and pole with myimproved connection applied thereto. Figs. 4'and 5 are end views of thetwo clamping- 1 plates.

The nature of my invention is defined in the claim hereinafterpresented, it being for the purpose of attaching a pruning or other sawprovided with a handle to a pole, in order forthe saw to be operated bya person having hold of the pole by his hands.

In pruning trees with a saw it is frequently 'diflicult or inconvenientto accomplish such by a person having his hand grasping the handle ofthe pruning-saw.

My invention is designed to enable him to stand on the ground or toreach from any position in'or under a tree far into it to detach from itby a saw any limb or portion of the 0 tree.

In the drawings, A denotes part of a saw, of which a is the handle, andb a portion of the blade, while G represents part of a pole connected tothe said handle by my attachng specification bolt, F,

rawopening with a nut, G, to screw on the screw of the consists in ameasure of two metallic plates, D E, arranged against opposite sides ofthe saw-handle and projecting rearward there- -from, and provided withcurved jaws 0r notched or recessed projections c c c, to grasp 40 thepole in manner as shown. A headed screwgoes through both plates and thehandh of the saw-handle, and is provided bolt and against one of theplates or a washer, d, between such plate and nut. Between the twoplates and for the saw-handle to rest against there is a crescentshapedabutment, H,which at its middle turns freely on a pin, 6, extending fromone two plates. This abutment constitutes a back rest for the saw, andturns with it, as it may be moved either into line with the pole or intoa position oblique thereto. I

When the pole and the saw-handle are placed 5 5 between the two platesin manner as shown, and the hand-nut is properly screwed up, the poleand saw will be connected together in order for the saw to be worked bya person having hold of the pole.

I claim The combination of the pole and saw with the pivoted abutment,the two jawed plates, and their clamping screw and nut, arranged withthe handle of the saw, and with the said 6 5 pole, substantially as setforth.

' CHESTER FARR DEAN.

Witnesses: V

R. H. EDDY,

35 ment, to be described. The said attachment E. B. PRATT.

to and through the other of the v A

